Erase Hard Drive

[PHATCC]

does anyone in here know how to complety erase a Hard Drive...im a new to this thing so im gonna need lotta help thanks!

 

[AT2005]

Your going to put in a Windows OS (operating system) CD and then you will be able to Format your hard drive. Format means erase every trace of information on a HDD so than you can do what ever you want o do with it.

 

[PHATCC]

i dont know what that is...is it the WINXP cd???or what

 

[AT2005]

Does it say Windows XP on the cd silk screening? If so its your OS Cd

 

[phosho510]

just pop in your os disk, click new install, then it should restart you computer, and then you just install the new os over your old one, and that should delete everything, takes like 35 mins for it to be done

 

[Regulus]

Took me 45 minutes. Not that 10 minutes makes a diff. Yeah, the OS disc is the shiny one with the little pictures on it and is labeled "Windows XP Home Edition".

 

[phosho510]

or windows xp proffesionals edition, and maybe windows 2000 ,98, 95,and ME

 

[waynejkruse10]

or you could make a dos boot disk and put fdisk.exe and format.com on it, boot of it, delete current partition, format, create new partition, format. That wil ensure that when you install windows again it will be a fresh copy

 

[XFlamez]

use the windows xp professional, much much better than the rest of those other versions, 2000 is known to be hackable...xp home is ok, but not enough security

so juss install it, one thing good about win xp, they auto format, so you don't have to actually enter commands to erase the HD

 

[GageMW]

just a question, why would you want to erase your HD? alot of spyware or something?